Because a sample is information obtained from the population that will be used in hypothesis testing.
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Samples are used to save time and money when the population is large and when the units must be destroyed to gain information.
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When the sample - whether it is random or systematic - is somehow representative of the population.
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Inferential statistics
There are a few reasons why samples are used in statistics. One reason is that the whole population cannot be used and a sample is a good representation of the whole.
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Greek letters are used for population parameters. Eg: µ is the population mean English letters are used for sample statistics. Eg: x-bar is the sample mean
Inferential statistics.
A representative sample is one where the statistics of the sample are the same as the statistics for the parent population.
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When the sample - whether it is random or systematic - is somehow representative of the population.
In statistics, "x-bar" (denoted as (\bar{x})) represents the sample mean, which is the average of a set of values in a sample. It is calculated by summing all the observations in the sample and dividing by the number of observations. The sample mean is used to estimate the population mean and is a key concept in inferential statistics.
Will a sample descriptive statistics accurately estimate the underlying population's parameters?
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Inferential statistics
Statistics
There are a few reasons why samples are used in statistics. One reason is that the whole population cannot be used and a sample is a good representation of the whole.